The chessboard before me is full, and my mind, it so happens, is suddenly a blank. "My, these are nice-looking pieces," I think to myself in a daze, scanning the dignified Nordic figures in this ...

The first of the three chess piece plugs you’ll actually come across is the Rook. As you’re exploring the Sewers to begin with, you’ll actually come across it right next to a bridge. Removing the Rook ...

In the closing sequence of “The Queen’s Gambit,” the chess-playing heroine, Beth Harmon, defeats her archrival Vasily Borgov at the Moscow Invitational. The next day she impulsively skips her flight ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. ConsiderThis The release of “The Queen’s Gambit” on Netflix last year made us all want to live in the 1960s chess world Beth ...